Railway-rail joint.



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` T. DONAHUE.

RAILWAY RAIL JUINT.

v. (Application led July 18,1897. Re-nevod June 1B, 1899.) (No Model.)

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PATENTA OFFICE.

OE'LAIIE OITY, MICHIGAN, AssIeNOR To J. HLYLE, on PITTSBURG, PENNSYLVANIA,

RAILWAY-RAILJOINT.

SPECIFICATION forming' part of Letters Patent NO'.l 629,3145 dated. July 18, 1.899.

v Application led July 12, 1897. Renewed [I une 16, 1899.. Serial No. 720,844. (No model.)`

T0 all whom. t 11i/wy concern:

Be it known that I, THOMAS DONAHUE, a citizen of the United States, residing at Lake City, in the county of Missaukee, State of Michigan, have invented a new. and'useful- Railway-Joint, of which the following is a specification. I

This invention has for its yoloject to make in effect as near as possible a continuous rail when consideringits solidity, to economize in the use of bolts, and to better provide for contraction and expansion of the rail.

In the drawings forming-a part of this specification, Figure l is a broken side elevation, Fig. 2 a plan, Fig. 3 a cross-section on line ct a, in Fig. 2,and Fig. 4 is aplanV view, of the joint-coupling. l

Referring to thep'arts of the drawings pointi ed out by letters, A A are the rails end to end,

as in an ordinaryrailway, and B B are the ties. On the ties where the joint between the lrails comes-as, for instance, at C C-I locate my joint-coupling D. This coupling is all made soli'd,`having a recess E to receive the ends of the rails A, as in Fig. 3. The ends of the rails fit into "each end of this recess in the coupling, as in Figs. 1 and 2.' The rails are provided with a vertical groove F F on each side and receive the upper edges of the npwardly-extendin g iian ges H of the coupling each side of the channel I. The couplings are holtedor spiked down to the ties, as at .l J. By this means no bolts are needed to pass horizontally through the sides of the coupling z and through the rails, and the coupling is firm and solid, and yet sincethe rails are loose in `the couplings they are free to contract and Y expand.

Having thus described my invention, what Iolairn as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, isfy YThe railway joint-coupling, made of a single peceand having the upwardly-extending 'iianges and an interior recess conforming to the shape vof the web and base-flange of the Vrail, and adapted to receive the contiguous ends of the two rails therein, combined with the rails having the-usual hase-dange, web

and tread portion, and having the grooves in the under sideof the tread portion to receive the anges of the joint-coupling, whereby they joint is held rmly without the use of bolts lthrough the ianges and stem, substantially as set forth.

In testimony of the foregoing I have here- 

